my Mom was the same, she was a democrat but she agreed with me on issues.
She often asked me before she died, "when are you gonna run for President'..
God I miss my Mom.. we had great talks, she died on my birthday 5 years ago..
My Momma passed away in Feb. of '98, I miss her dreadfully. We were roommates for 10 years after Daddy passed away. She was my best friend.
"My Momma passed away in Feb. of '98, I miss her dreadfully. We were roommates for 10 years after Daddy passed away. She was my best friend."
Consider then, how blessed you were.
The last time I saw my mother was when I was 27 and she and Daddy put the boys and me on the plane in Florida to join Bernie in South Dakota. We wrote often, and when a year later my daughter was born, we could not go back to Florida to show her to my parents.
Instead, when the baby was 2 months old, we drove to Fairbanks, Alaska for 3 1/2 years.
Mom then (when I was 29) had a blockage in her carotid artery found on a Friday while hospitalized, scheduled for surgery Monday a.m. - and the clot traveled and burst behind one eye on Saturday night. She was left paralyzed; blind; and unable to speak for a year and a half.
You were by comparison fortunate to have your mothers as long as you did.
I had no way to visit her or talk with her - and had just turned 31 when my mother died on my second son's 10th birthday....getting the telegram while I sat just under the Arctic Circle - never had a chance to see her or tell her goodbye.
My comfort, though, was a conversation we had before I left. Knowing I was apt to be far away if either she or Daddy died, she told me to not worry about "being there," for they would know I was in spirit, as they would be for me - always.
My sister and I marvel that in all of our life, Mom *never* *ever* raised her voice at us!
She was so dear and loving and intelligent and capable you wanted more than anything to please her! A true Southern Woman, dixie - - -
When ARE you gonna run for president?